Hi, I am currently mulling over what OS to run on my media server.
I have been trying out a variety of solutions over the years, starting out with Windows Home Server, then Freenas, and some other ZFS-sollutions like Solaris, OpenSolaris and NexentaCore.
With Windows 8 I moved back to Windows and Storage Spaces, but I later outgrew the 63TB limit on the pools.
Recently I've been going back to Freenas, but I've been having some issues which makes me want to look into what other options there are.
I am currently running RaidZ3 with 1 pool of 11 x 6TB and another of 11 x 4 TB, and I have 10 x 3TB drives ready to be added, but I feel is that I lose a lot of potential storage with RaidZ3, and it's very expensive to have to buy 11 drives if I want to expand the server.
I have 1:1 backups of all the content on the server, so a crash won't really cause any real issues other than having to copy the data over to the server, and the server being down for a few days.
Like I said earlier I used to use Storage Spaces, and I was running that without any sort of raid-like redundancy and I was fine with the risk of doing that, the reason why I moved away was because of the 63TB limit.
So basically I am looking for something that is easy to manage, that can give me a stable media server and a Plex-server. What would you suggest that I use for this? Should I stick with Freenas, or go for something else? I am looking for something that I can grow to at least 150TB.
I have been trying out a variety of solutions over the years, starting out with Windows Home Server, then Freenas, and some other ZFS-sollutions like Solaris, OpenSolaris and NexentaCore.
With Windows 8 I moved back to Windows and Storage Spaces, but I later outgrew the 63TB limit on the pools.
Recently I've been going back to Freenas, but I've been having some issues which makes me want to look into what other options there are.
I am currently running RaidZ3 with 1 pool of 11 x 6TB and another of 11 x 4 TB, and I have 10 x 3TB drives ready to be added, but I feel is that I lose a lot of potential storage with RaidZ3, and it's very expensive to have to buy 11 drives if I want to expand the server.
I have 1:1 backups of all the content on the server, so a crash won't really cause any real issues other than having to copy the data over to the server, and the server being down for a few days.
Like I said earlier I used to use Storage Spaces, and I was running that without any sort of raid-like redundancy and I was fine with the risk of doing that, the reason why I moved away was because of the 63TB limit.
So basically I am looking for something that is easy to manage, that can give me a stable media server and a Plex-server. What would you suggest that I use for this? Should I stick with Freenas, or go for something else? I am looking for something that I can grow to at least 150TB.